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Subject: Re: RFC: Making focus information visible for panes
From: Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date: 2006-12-03 21:01:27
Message-ID: 200612032201.28143.reinhold () kainhofer ! com
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Am Son Dez 3 2006 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> Because this way the user never needs to remember or check which pane
> has focus. He can simply press left/right to go to the previous/next
> message and simply press up/down to scroll the message without having
> to think about the focus. If the keyboard focus doesn't get in his way
> then he can much better focus on what he actually wants to do.
Actually, keyboard focus gets in his way, as the quick search line consumes
the left/right, shift, etc. shortcuts. So this nice paradigm of "no pane in
kmail has ever the focus" is not entirely true any more.
Quite often, i search for a message, switch to a different window, switch back
to kmail and forget that the quick search bar has the focus. I then press
space a few times to get to the next unread message, which unfortunately does
not work....
> The alternative is that you press up/down because you want scroll the
> message but unfortunately the folder list has focus so that you
> inadvertently switch to another folder.
This problem already appears with the quick search bar.
Cheers,
Reinhol
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